CloudMonix was recently enhanced to offer a “white-glove” approach to instrumenting Azure Diagnostics extension on Windows VMs. After stepping thru short Setup Wizard or configuring a new VM via “Add New” button from the dashboard, CloudMonix will do the heavy lifting and automagically deploy a pre-configured Azure Diagnostics extension.

Special notes about this functionality

CloudMonix will issue UpdateRole API call to Azure Management API in order to deploy Diagnostics Extension. This may temporarily yank non-load balanced VMs in and out of Azure’s load balancer.

CloudMonix will override any existing Diagnostics Extension configuration on the VM with its own. It is setup to only capture performance counters and Windows event logs at this time.

CloudMonix agent is still the recommended approach when

monitoring of Windows Services or Processes is required

execution of PowerShell scripts is needed for self-healing functionality